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| Aid worker is kidnapped in Yemen |
| 2013-05-15 |
| [Yemen Post] Just as a Finnish couple and a Danish national are landing safely in their respective homeland after months spent in captivity in Yemen, officials reported this Monday that an aid worker for the International Committee of the Red Cross had been kidnapped by unknown gunmen. Does anyone see a pattern here? Anyone? Bueller? While the ICRC refused to comment on the matter neither confirming nor denying the attack, CNN quoted three local officials as saying that the aid worker, a Swiss national was being detained by a group of armed men in the southern province of Abyan. It was not yet established whether or not the men were linked to al-Qaeda or if they already had enounced the terms of his release. It is the third time in less than a week that foreign workers have been kidnapped in the region. Last week two Egyptian nationals and two Indian nationals were attacked in similar circumstances to that of the ICRC worker by armed tribesmen. They are currently being held in Abyan while the government is looking for an acceptable compromise with the tribe. Officials are so far incline to believe that the Swiss national was kidnapped by members of the same tribe to force the government into agreeing to its terms rather than another somber terror plot engineered by al-Qaeda. Since a bomb attack was foiled in Aden on Sunday, Yemen counter-terror services have been on high alert, on the look out for yet another flare up of violence in Yemen southern territories. |
| Posted by:Fred |